In 1793, King Louis XVI of France went to the guillotine in Paris. In 1861, Jefferson Davis resigned from the U.S. Senate. In 1968, the Battle of Khe Sanh began. In 1977, President Jimmy Carter pardoned nearly all Vietnam War-era draft evaders. In 2003, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that Hispanics were now the U.S.'s largest minority group.

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Sarah Janssen is the senior editor of The World Almanac and Book of Facts, The World Almanac for Kids, and other diverse titles. She is the co-author of Under the Covers and between the Sheets, a book of facts and trivia about the world's greatest books. Sarah lives in Brooklyn, NY.